[newbie] XKill
I was using Kmp3. I tried to load a playlist and it froze up. I clicked on XKill on the desktop to get rid of it and now it won't start up anymore. I've tried rebooting and nothing seems to work and I can't find any info on the program XKill.
Re: [newbie] Mouse/soundcard/SCSI probs
At 07:49 PM 2/5/00 -0600, you wrote: I just got 7.0 intalled, but no sound or SCSI. If I try to use Lothar, it starts and then the mouse stops responding making it hard to setup. I used developer setup during install. System specs are below Make sure the sound card and mouse aren't on the same IRQ. Use K^ -- Settings -- Information -- Interrupts to check, IIRC. If the mouse and sound card are Plug'n'Pray you might have problems. Oh you can certainly eventually get them working, but it could get hairy. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] Open Ports
At 09:41 PM 2/5/00 -0500, you wrote: Log in as root open etc/inetd.confand comment out the services you dont want too run. You can also configure TCP wrappers to block much. Its good to lock down services you dont need as they can be used to hack into your system Thx, I ought to do that as well. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] set background from command line
At 11:47 PM 2/5/00 -0500, you wrote: Is it possible to set the background image from the command line? I've looked around at xview and the like and can't find it. Maybe I'm just too sleepy to find it but I _know_ it must be there. I'd like to wget radar images from a weather site and have the current weather radar then be my desktop background image. Storm chaser? :-) Heh -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] 7.0
Suppose I got a 7.0 disk from some unspecified source. Would I be able to quickly and painlessly upgrade the 6.0 I have, without screwing anything up or losing my data? -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] HP CD-Writer+ 7500
Hello, My HP CD-Writer+ 7500 (intern model, cd rewriter, 2/2/24) doesn't work yet. Can it be installed under Linux (running Linux-Mandrake 7.0)? And if so, where can I find a driver for this device? And how do I install it? It would be great if someone could give me some advice to install this CD-(re)writer properly. Thanks in advance, Jacob The Netherlands __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Which modem?
pretty much any external modem on a serial port will work fine with linux all you have to do is tell linux what port its on.. Harold rob self wrote: I have a winmodem and want to replace it so that I can run Linux on my PC. What type of modem is a good modem that you would recommend for use on a Linux PC?? Thanks, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: [newbie] HP CD-Writer+ 7500
You have to recompile your kernel. You disable support for ide-atapi cdrom and enable the scsi-emulation. Maybe you have also to enable the scsi support for generic scsi cdrom. Once you're done with your kernel and that you have booted your linux with it, type cdrecord -scanbus to see if it recognize it. It should. Then you can burn CDs with cdrecord, xcdroast or whatever tool you want to choose. Billy Noel -Jacob- wrote : Hello, My HP CD-Writer+ 7500 (intern model, cd rewriter, 2/2/24) doesn't work yet. Can it be installed under Linux (running Linux-Mandrake 7.0)? And if so, where can I find a driver for this device? And how do I install it? It would be great if someone could give me some advice to install this CD-(re)writer properly. Thanks in advance, Jacob The Netherlands __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] HP CD-Writer+ 7500
At 12:44 PM 2/6/00 +0100, you wrote: You have to recompile your kernel. You disable support for ide-atapi cdrom and enable the scsi-emulation. Maybe you have also to enable the scsi support for generic scsi cdrom. Once you're done with your kernel and that you have booted your linux with it, type cdrecord -scanbus to see if it recognize it. It should. Ouch. Can't you just load a kernel module for SCSI support? -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] HP CD-Writer+ 7500
You have to recompile your kernel. You disable support for ide-atapi cdrom and enable the scsi-emulation. Maybe you have also to enable the scsi support for generic scsi cdrom. Once you're done with your kernel and that you have booted your linux with it, type cdrecord -scanbus to see if it recognize it. It should. Ouch. Can't you just load a kernel module for SCSI support? Maybe it is possible, but the problem is that I think that you cannot have ide cdrom support anymore enabled, as it must recognize your HP as beeing a scsi device and not an ide cdrom during the boot process. So, I think (I'm NOT sure) that you must rebuid a kernel at least to disable ide cdrom support. HTH flupke
Re: [[newbie] Which modem?]
rob self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a winmodem and want to replace it so that I can run Linux on my PC. What type of modem is a good modem that you would recommend for use on a Linux PC?? Thanks, Rob I strongly recommend getting an external; possibly a USR 56K faxmodem v.90 or a courier v.everything (that second one's a bit pricey). Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] set background from command line and memory comment
"Ty C.Mixon" wrote: Just my $0.02: Make an image file called default.jpg (or whatever). Now set your background to that. Now make a script that dwnlds the latest radar image, then mv's it to default.jpg (overwriting of course). Now make sure you can autorefresh your desktop. :) Well heck - that's simple! I like simple g. As soon as I find out how to autorefresh my desktop, I'm done! There's a great app for winders called Weather1 that will do this - in fact there's oodles of 'em for winders - heck there must be as many apps as blue screens of death! Who needs a $hareware app and BSODs when one can do it with stuff that comes with the distro? By the way - using MDK 7.0-2 here now, on a dual-celeron box and a P2 box, and unlike 6.1, neither one can tell I have 128 megs without a lilo mem= command. Wish I knew what changed from 6.1 to 7.0.x. dave w in wv usa
Re: [newbie] HP CD-Writer+ 7500
Ok, thanks already, I think I understand what to do. But the point is that I'm using Linux just a few weeks now and so I am a rather newbie kind of user. 'Cause how to do it is still a question :-)). How can I recompile my kernel and do what I have to do? Could you give me some hints? Thanks in advance, Jacob alias BillyNoel You have to recompile your kernel. You disable support for ide-atapi cdrom and enable the scsi-emulation. Maybe you have also to enable the scsi support for generic scsi cdrom. Once you're done with your kernel and that you have booted your linux with it, type cdrecord -scanbus to see if it recognize it. It should. Then you can burn CDs with cdrecord, xcdroast or whatever tool you want to choose. Billy Noel -Jacob- wrote : Hello, My HP CD-Writer+ 7500 (intern model, cd rewriter, 2/2/24) doesn't work yet. Can it be installed under Linux (running Linux-Mandrake 7.0)? And if so, where can I find a driver for this device? And how do I install it? It would be great if someone could give me some advice to install this CD-(re)writer properly. Thanks in advance, Jacob The Netherlands __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Licq message problem in Mandrake 7.0
Has anyone come up with a fix for the message problem in Licq 0.70 (included in Air)?
[newbie] RE: 7.0 upgr AND it works w/win stuff too!
I read an article last wk on ZDNET about mandrake7, which said that the "update" option works fine .. I did a full install myself because I didn't have any "stuff" I was interested in keeping. Incidently, you may be interested to know that the new KDE that is shipping with man7 automounts ALL your volumes (in my case it includes my 3 NT4 partitions ), though the WIN32 files won't autorun (guess they don't have the WINE emulator integrated yet), you can copy, open text files, open any MS Office files (assuming you have Sun's free StarOffice on your linux machine) .. it's really a cool feature!! Worth the upgrade if you ask me. It is really getting to be a world-class desktop OS Alan ** Original Message follows... Suppose I got a 7.0 disk from some unspecified source. Would I be able to quickly and painlessly upgrade the 6.0 I have, without screwing anything up or losing my data? -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
RE: [newbie] Licq message problem in Mandrake 7.0
** Original Message follows... Has anyone come up with a fix for the message problem in Licq 0.70 (included in Air)? Go to http://rufus.w3.org They have one of the largest library of RPM files I have ever seen. Download and install one of the KICQ's (kde icq) ... I haven't had problem 1 with kicq Hope this helps Alan
RE: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive?
My solution for this was to move my WIN drive to the second IDE port and installing the empty HD at primary on the first IDE port. I FDISKed the new drive (just to make sure nothing survived) and then did an auto install to that drive. LILO will now boot linux automatically if I do nothing during boot or it will run WIN if I type DOS at the LILO prompt. ** Original Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive? ** Original Sender: Foyah Z Freeman Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Original Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 00:39:03 EST ** Original Message follows... -Original Message-From: Foyah Z. Freeman, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive? Hello Greg, I am a newbie also and have successfully installed Mandrake 7.0 on a second ide drive. Mandrake 7.0 will ask you during the installation where to install. I don't quite remember the step, but I believe it is the selection for partitioning your drive, you will see selections that look like this: Fat 32 [this actually refers to your c: drive, the 6gb or the drive with Windows Hdb1 [this is actually your d: drive] This is the drive you want to install on; just check it first because it shows you the size of the drive you select (something like 4100k). !BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO SELECT THE FAT 32 PARTITION!!! I wouldn't worry much about this installation, it is very smooth. I have tried mandrake 6.0, 6.1, suse 6.3, Caldera openlinux 2.3, red hat 6.0, and corel linux deluxe edition. All of my mandrake distributions have gone well except that this time, for the very first time, I have been able to install fairly easily and also get my SBLive sound card to work without me doing anything special. The last step helps you install LILO so you can type linux or windows to load the respective operating system. This is good stuff man. I hope you try installing and have fun doing so. Let me know if it works. Good Luck. Foyah -Original Message-From: Greg Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 3:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake to a 2nd IDE hard drive? I've been reading all the good reviews on Mandrake 7. I'm interested in giving it a try due to its easy install feature. The last time I tried to install Linux, I totally screwed up my system. However Mandrake 7 looks like a fairly easy install with most of what I want already included in the distribution. So I think I will give it another go. I have one question: I have two IDE hard drives in my computer (c: drive is a 6GB d: drive is a 4GB). I have Windows 98 on the 6GB drive, and really nothing on the 4GB. For my Mandrake 7 install, I would really like to keep Windows on my 6GB and install Mandrake on the 4GB (and give Mandrake full access to the whole 4GB drive), and use some sort of boot manager to toggle between the two at boot up (I guess LILO, unless if there is something better). I've looked everywhere on the Internet, and found that most pages that explain how to have Windows and Linux installed on the same machine, all explain how to do the install on the same drive. I haven't found any sites that explain how to install Linux on a 2nd drive. Do any of you know of any sites that would explain how to install Mandrake 7 to an empty 2nd drive in a very step-by-step way? Thanks for you information! Greg ** - End Original Message --- **
Re: [newbie] problems
H. You could try updating from the 7.0 CD (which takes forever!). That should get it going. - Original Message - From: "Kyle Filipski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 12:01 AM Subject: [newbie] problems I have the 6.1 version, tried to install it a few months ago. It didn't work with my ATI Rage 128 video card, not supported then. Now I hear that it is...how do I go about updating this??? I take it I should re-install it from the CDRom and then what? Should I download the new Xfree86 version 3.3.6 ? (which supports ATI Rage 128) And if I do, I'd have to do it through Windoze...how will I be able to get at this file after I install Linux? Help... C-Ya Flip
[newbie] Can't Telnet to Linux-Mandrake Box
I can ping my 6.0 linux box but I cannot telnet to it: whenever I try it says; connection to host lost. Is there a setting somewhere I need to change ? I can ping the box can browse the web, so the adapter is working. Any Ideas Thanks
Re: [newbie] boot disk and cd help
I can't seem to get Linux to see my NIC card.. i use a cable modem and need this... its a 3com etherlink lx... how do i get the driver and how do i put it in :) ] A REAL newbie
Re: [newbie] HP CD-Writer+ 7500
Add then following URL's to your bookmark list and then check them out: http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/index.html http://www.mandrakeuser.org Matt - Original Message - From: Billy Noel -Jacob- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 5:34 AM Subject: [newbie] HP CD-Writer+ 7500 Hello, My HP CD-Writer+ 7500 (intern model, cd rewriter, 2/2/24) doesn't work yet. Can it be installed under Linux (running Linux-Mandrake 7.0)? And if so, where can I find a driver for this device? And how do I install it? It would be great if someone could give me some advice to install this CD-(re)writer properly. Thanks in advance, Jacob The Netherlands __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] DiskDrake Question
I have a question about diskdrake... Is it a non-destructive partitioner or am I gonna have to buy partitionmagic? -Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Hard Drive does not power down
Under Windoze, after 20 minutes of idle time, my hard drive would obediently spin-down into a power-saving state. This does not seem to be the case with linux (I have another computer (Redhat) with the same problem.) My Mandrake computer is an Acer Extensa 390c notebook, perchased in New Zealand. (Cheap piece of crap) There are no settings for how long to wait for in the BIOS, so I'm presuming it's an OS thing. Could someone please point me in the right direction. I've tried grepping for apm in all of my HOWTOs, but to no avail. I would like to leave it going all the time, but without this hardware-saving feature, I'm reluctant to do so. Thanks in advance. Cameron Kerr - Computer Technician Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph:474 3367 or 474 3800 if unavailable Cell: 021 2938869
[newbie] Re: [expert] 2.2.13-22 kernel update
On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: OK, I was looking for an update for the stdlibc and gcc gcc+ libraries and such (got tired of installing software that required one library or another that didn't install when I selected "everything" from the 6.1 install) so me thinks "Let's try the update button on the KDE panel". Stupid move. Every thing d/l'd fine so I reboot and my machine erupts. I get " ~^[[24~^[[24 "'s streaming across my screen, the internal speaker is screaming as the filesystem is being mounted (NOT a pleasant thing at 12:30 am). Doah, I forgot to edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new 2.2.13-22 kernel and rerun lilo. OK that's done but I still have the same problem and any time I enter into a terminal mode my screen again erupts into streaming " ~~" anytime I look at it crosseyed and seem to be having general keyboard problems typing this. I also now get an error msg that my kernel does not have kppp support but launches it anyway when I hit "OK". This folks is rediculous, I suppose it's my fault for trying to fix something that wasn't broke but all I wanted was the libraries that should have loaded in the first place. Please, anyone got any suggestions Joe Gardner are you running acon? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] KDE runs to slow!
I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my HD is kranking all the time). I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. I really appreciate any suggestion. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
I would suggest that it is a shortage of memory. KDE is memory hungry. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, you wrote: I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my HD is kranking all the time). I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. I really appreciate any suggestion. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] DiskDrake Question
yes, but if you use it to much, your hard-drive could be damaged. (You will have to use it for 100 times before that happends) And why do you want to BUY partitionmagic. You can download it from internet for free and it works fine. Nick DavinaICQ# 15178477http://www.evolnick.com - Original Message - From: Jamie Richard (Gamestation) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: [newbie] DiskDrake Question I have a question about diskdrake... Is it a non-destructive partitioner or am I gonna have to buy partitionmagic? -Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.webprovider.com
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive does not power down
At 10:13 AM 2/7/00 +1300, you wrote: Under Windoze, after 20 minutes of idle time, my hard drive would obediently spin-down into a power-saving state. This does not seem to be the case with linux (I have another computer (Redhat) with the same problem.) Bad. Spin-up and spin-down are the real source of wear and tear on fixed disks, not disk writes and reads. Modern floppies are in dustproof dust-gated shock-resistant hard cases. They fail frequently, but HDD's only rarely. Why's this? Some of it is because with HDDs lots of attention goes into quality. But a lot is wear and tear... a floppy spins up and down once each for every time it's mounted. So does a hard drive. But a floppy might get used very frequently, and mounted repeatedly. A hard drive might only power cycle once a week, or even less often, in a desktop box. Even when you reboot, unless it's a full power down and up, the hard disks tend not to spin down and back up. And if treated right, i.e. no messing around with magnets near the box, and such, they work perfectly for years, usually being lost when you upgrade the box instead of because of a crash. But this doesn't apply if it spins up and down regularly. Of course, laptop HDDs are, in higher quality models, probably designed to withstand extra wear and tear to give similar reliability rates in these cases to PC hdds (as measured in terms of mean time between failures). Which leads naturally to... My Mandrake computer is an Acer Extensa 390c notebook, perchased in New Zealand. (Cheap piece of crap) Somehow, I don't think your hdd is specially designed for extra wear and tear imposed by frequent spindown and spinup, let alone changes in orientation while in use. Uh-oh. Most times when a friend or family member complains about a disk crash, it turns out to be in either a used computer or a laptop. In the latter case it's sometimes only a few months old. Maybe an upgrade of your notebook to a higher quality (and unfortunately probably more expensive) model would be good. Until then, make lots of backups... and don't, for heaven's sake, use floppies. :-) I would like to leave it going all the time, but without this hardware-saving feature, I'm reluctant to do so. Battery-saving, actually, and at the expense of the hardware itself, eventually... -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
At 01:38 PM 2/6/00 -0800, you wrote: I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my HD is kranking all the time). That's damned odd. I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. Oh, that explains everything. P133/16MB RAM ^ ^ | | | `-- You intend to run a GUI with this?! Stick to the command prompt until | you've got at least 32. :-) `-- Ouch. That places your machine squarely in the "desktop calculator" bracket in the CPU pecking order. Try something with a bit more zip to it. 350MHz is probably a good starting place. Take your spending cash for the month, but 48 megs of simms with it, and blow the rest on the fastest AMD chip you can. (AMD, because you'll get a slightly faster AMD chip than you will an Intel chip for the same price, and whereas you can get a conceptually-even-faster Cyrix chip, Cyrix generally sucks the bag, especially on fpu performance, but also on string and integer ops.) -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
RE: [newbie] Hard Drive does not power down
Thanks very much, you've been very helpful. 2000 is the year of the Penguin, not the Dragon -Original Message- From: Paul Derbyshire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2000 10:58am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hard Drive does not power down At 10:13 AM 2/7/00 +1300, you wrote: Under Windoze, after 20 minutes of idle time, my hard drive would obediently spin-down into a power-saving state. This does not seem to be the case with linux (I have another computer (Redhat) with the same problem.) Bad. Spin-up and spin-down are the real source of wear and tear on fixed disks, not disk writes and reads. Modern floppies are in dustproof dust-gated shock-resistant hard cases. They fail frequently, but HDD's only rarely. Why's this? Some of it is because with HDDs lots of attention goes into quality. But a lot is wear and tear... a floppy spins up and down once each for every time it's mounted. So does a hard drive. But a floppy might get used very frequently, and mounted repeatedly. A hard drive might only power cycle once a week, or even less often, in a desktop box. Even when you reboot, unless it's a full power down and up, the hard disks tend not to spin down and back up. And if treated right, i.e. no messing around with magnets near the box, and such, they work perfectly for years, usually being lost when you upgrade the box instead of because of a crash. But this doesn't apply if it spins up and down regularly. Of course, laptop HDDs are, in higher quality models, probably designed to withstand extra wear and tear to give similar reliability rates in these cases to PC hdds (as measured in terms of mean time between failures). Which leads naturally to... My Mandrake computer is an Acer Extensa 390c notebook, perchased in New Zealand. (Cheap piece of crap) Somehow, I don't think your hdd is specially designed for extra wear and tear imposed by frequent spindown and spinup, let alone changes in orientation while in use. Uh-oh. Most times when a friend or family member complains about a disk crash, it turns out to be in either a used computer or a laptop. In the latter case it's sometimes only a few months old. Maybe an upgrade of your notebook to a higher quality (and unfortunately probably more expensive) model would be good. Until then, make lots of backups... and don't, for heaven's sake, use floppies. :-) I would like to leave it going all the time, but without this hardware-saving feature, I'm reluctant to do so. Battery-saving, actually, and at the expense of the hardware itself, eventually... -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
RE: [newbie] all windows files are executable?
At 11:55 AM 2/7/00 +1300, you wrote: PS. Backing up a FAT32 partition under Linux is probably a bad idea. As far as I know, there is only read-only support for FAT32, so you may be able to back up, but how will you restore? Are you joking? You can read/write fat32 in Mandrake 6.0 and above. Probably in all recent linux distributions. I often construct a text file of notes to myself in linux, save it with a path that leads into a mounted 'doze partition, and then read it in 'doze later, when I need to refer to list of stuff I've decided I want to download within 'doze for later transfer back to linux. I also regularly work with documents saved on one of the 'doze partitions or another to save the space on the relatively small ext2 partition, which is best used for apps, system files, utilities, and frequently-accessed stuff, or large clusters of very small files, the kinds of things that benefit most from ext2's native speed and compact representation. (Think no cluster wastage.) The default permissions are probably something like rwxr-xr-x, so unless you want non-root users to write to the partition, you will need to change the umask entry in /etc/fstab for that partition Hm. It should be more configurable IMO, so you can specify that only directories off the 'doze drive act executable. I.e. it acts like either -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x, as appropriate. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
RE: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
Look to Epson, a friend of mine installed one with a close-matching (not perfect) driver, and said it printed better than in windoze -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2000 1:00pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] and another thing - best printer? I recently switched from an HP 720 to an HP 880 because the former was a winprinter and wouldn't work on a jet direct card - or under linux very well. But even the 880 doesn't look very good and if set up as MDK7.0-2 WANTS to do it it'll be just a standard HP Deskjet / Deskjet Plus. Prints in black and white :- I understand that HP's protocols are proprietary and linux likes Post/Ghost-script printers. What I'd like to know is - IS there a printer out there that will print in photo-quality ... at least as good as the 720 or 880 in windows - in LINUX? All I've been able to determine is that there are some workarounds to get printers to work poorly or almost text-only. Thanks again. dave w
RE: [newbie] Re: [expert] 2.2.13-22 kernel update
Did you do a (deep breath) make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make zImage make modules make modules-install cp the new image to /boot read the /usr/src/linux/README file -Original Message- From: Joe Sircy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2000 12:59pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: [expert] 2.2.13-22 kernel update I have been trying to install the same kernel all weekend, and have reloaded my machine 3 times. I DID edit the /etc/lilo.conf file, but it did not show up on the lilo menu when I reran it. Is that all that has to be done is add the new image into it? I downloaded the .rpm for the new kernal and just clicked on it, and kpackage opened it up, and I clicked install, then added the new kernel into the /etc/lilo.conf Joe On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, you wrote: On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Joseph S. Gardner wrote: OK, I was looking for an update for the stdlibc and gcc gcc+ libraries and such (got tired of installing software that required one library or another that didn't install when I selected "everything" from the 6.1 install) so me thinks "Let's try the update button on the KDE panel". Stupid move. Every thing d/l'd fine so I reboot and my machine erupts. I get " ~^[[24~^[[24 "'s streaming across my screen, the internal speaker is screaming as the filesystem is being mounted (NOT a pleasant thing at 12:30 am). Doah, I forgot to edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new 2.2.13-22 kernel and rerun lilo. OK that's done but I still have the same problem and any time I enter into a terminal mode my screen again erupts into streaming " ~~" anytime I look at it crosseyed and seem to be having general keyboard problems typing this. I also now get an error msg that my kernel does not have kppp support but launches it anyway when I hit "OK". This folks is rediculous, I suppose it's my fault for trying to fix something that wasn't broke but all I wanted was the libraries that should have loaded in the first place. Please, anyone got any suggestions Joe Gardner are you running acon? -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
[newbie] Re: Hola acabo de visitar tu pagina
Hola soy MARK, te escribo desde BOLIVIA me gusto mucho su pagina web y me gustaria si te es posible POR FAVOR me indicaras donde puedo encontrar manuales para hacer ese tipo de pagina ademas en que programa lo hiciste, te cuento que tengo que hacer una pagina algo complicada y no donde empezar, tambien te rogaria si puedes enviarme manuales sobre linux, soy principiante en linux y tengo que instalar un servidor con linux y 25 terminales con windows y no tengo ni la mas remota idea de como hacerlo , se como hacerlo en windows pero de linux no se ni papa, ya compraron la maquina para que funcione como servidor, tuve que bajar los drivers desde internet para la de video pero no puedo configuarla por eso necesito los manuales. Si puedes enviarme manuales sobre creacion de paginas web super complejas y manuales para linux y todos sus trucos te estare completamente agradecido ya que me salvaras el cuello. De ante mano te lo agradesco mucho si lo pudieses hacer Gracias MARK PD. mi correo es [EMAIL PROTECTED] mi icq es 15010878 Consigue tu cuenta de E-mail gratis y permanente en WWW.YUPI.COM
[newbie] DiskDrake
So I can install linux along with windows without destroying my data on the FAT32 partitions? -Jamie
[newbie] checking /dev/hda3 on boot
A few days ago I installed Mandrake 7.0 from a cdrom disk purchased at Cheapbytes.com. All seemed to go smoothly but a couple of problems have developed. First: When I bootup I always get the message: "/dev/hda3 not cleanly unmounted, check forced" and then it goes through the process. I have been using various distributions of linux for about three years now and am familiar with the checking procedure which normally occurs every x-number of times one boots up, but not checked every time. Have been careful to see that all applications are closed before logging out of X and shutting down. When I boot up into Xwindows I'm using kde. How do I eliminate the every-boot checking? Second: I configured sound and have been playing the music I like on CD disks that I own. But today after I booted I could not open the cdrom drawer and using the mount commands "mount /dev/hdc" or "mount /dev/cdrom" did not work. No access to the drawer. Similarly using "umount /dev/hdc" or "umount /dev/cdrom". The fstab file has this line: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 Mandrake is installed on a PentiumII-233M with a WD 3.1G hard drive and a Toshiba 24X ide cd-rom. /dev/hda3 has about 1.2G of space with 50% free. Thanks for help geneps
Re: [[newbie] KDE runs to slow!]
Cristi Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my HD is kranking all the time). I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. I really appreciate any suggestion. === I think your system might be a little light to be running X, especially with something like KDE. Add another 32 meg fr Ram, increase swap to about 100 meg, and you'll notice a significant increase in performance. Or you might drop KDE and try running a lighter desktop environment like Afterstep HTH, Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
Cameron Kerr wrote: Look to Epson, a friend of mine installed one with a close-matching (not perfect) driver, and said it printed better than in windoze That would sure be enough to make me switch (back) to good old Epson. dave
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
I am very new to Linux, I'm triple booting with Win2K, Win98, Linux my Epson Stylus Photo 700 works fantastic in all three. Craig dave wrote: I recently switched from an HP 720 to an HP 880 because the former was a winprinter and wouldn't work on a jet direct card - or under linux very well. But even the 880 doesn't look very good and if set up as MDK7.0-2 WANTS to do it it'll be just a standard HP Deskjet / Deskjet Plus. Prints in black and white :- I understand that HP's protocols are proprietary and linux likes Post/Ghost-script printers. What I'd like to know is - IS there a printer out there that will print in photo-quality ... at least as good as the 720 or 880 in windows - in LINUX? All I've been able to determine is that there are some workarounds to get printers to work poorly or almost text-only. Thanks again. dave w
[newbie] background images
I guess a better way to ask what I've been working on lately (keeping up-to-date radar images as desktop background images) might be to ask: how can one assign a background image from the console? The act of doing so will refresh it - but just copying a new file of the same name over the old file doesn't cut it. TIA dave w
RE: [newbie] background images
Try copying the image, then using a command like xloadimage -root blah blah blah -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2000 3:05pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] background images I guess a better way to ask what I've been working on lately (keeping up-to-date radar images as desktop background images) might be to ask: how can one assign a background image from the console? The act of doing so will refresh it - but just copying a new file of the same name over the old file doesn't cut it. TIA dave w
Re: [[newbie] and another thing - best printer?]
dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently switched from an HP 720 to an HP 880 because the former was a winprinter and wouldn't work on a jet direct card - or under linux very well. But even the 880 doesn't look very good and if set up as MDK7.0-2 WANTS to do it it'll be just a standard HP Deskjet / Deskjet Plus. Prints in black and white :- I understand that HP's protocols are proprietary and linux likes Post/Ghost-script printers. What I'd like to know is - IS there a printer out there that will print in photo-quality ... at least as good as the 720 or 880 in windows - in LINUX? All I've been able to determine is that there are some workarounds to get printers to work poorly or almost text-only. Thanks again. dave w === I use a couple of HP 695c (at home and work) and am quite pleased with the performance. I wouldn't say "photo quality" color, but quite respectable. Equal to its performance in Windows. Not the fastest printers around, by a long shot, but quite competent, satisfactory performers for the money (about US$130 when I picked them up about a year ago). Mike ## Michael Scottaline Linux 2.2.13 ## Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
[newbie] Compile
When I ran the 'make dep' step I got an error of "invalid option-- preferred stack boundary=2"So I changed /usr/src/linux/makefile to read 'preferred stack boundary=1"That let me through the 'make dep' step, but then I get the same error as before when I go to 'make zImage'. Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions? Chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] problems
I have an ATI Rage Fury video card and heard that Mandrake 7.0 supported this. So I ordered a CD from Linux System Labs (1-888-LINUX-88) I can't find the web address but I found it somewhere on the Linux-Mandrake website. All I had to pay for was the shipping (FedEx - $13.25). It installed the Rage Fury card without a hitch. --Original Message-- From: "Kyle Filipski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 6, 2000 5:01:59 AM GMT Subject: [newbie] problems I have the 6.1 version, tried to install it a few months ago. It didn't work with my ATI Rage 128 video card, not supported then. Now I hear that it is...how do I go about updating this??? I take it I should re-install it from the CDRom and then what? Should I download the new Xfree86 version 3.3.6 ? (which supports ATI Rage 128) And if I do, I'd have to do it through Windoze...how will I be able to get at this file after I install Linux? Help... C-Ya Flip --- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com
Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all
Cameron Kerr wrote: Try copying the image, then using a command like xloadimage -root blah blah blah That's it! Thanks! I _knew_ there had to be a simple command for it ... xloadimage was what I was looking for. Now it all works and I'm done ... those who are interested in doing this, here's how _I_ did it - there must be a hundred other ways to do the same thing of course. First, crontab -e to edit a crontab file. In it I have: 30 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /root/rad_at.gif http://weather.unisys.com/radar/rad_at.gif 31 * * * * xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen /root/rad_at.gif Your image file would probably be different for your geographic area, and the -O is dash OH, not ZERO. This downloads the image hourly at xx:30, which is probably too frequent, but what the hey ... and then a minute later changes the background image on my desktop to a fullscreen version of the downloaded image. Heck, there is no SECOND part - that's actually all there is! (unless I'm forgetting something in my excitement) Nifty. This is why I like Linux. With a little digging and help from one's friends, anything is possible. dave w
Re: [newbie] X configure help PLEASE
Hi Tom, Its me again with the same problem but now in Air. Ive tried installing the same files I got it working with in MAndrake 6.5 and it doesnt work in 7. After hunting around I found some info with later files to try out. I cant get them working. I am confused with what files Ive got and what ones should be used and even then, the commands to use to install the XFCom. what stages need to be done? like: install the XFCom file build the kernel then install the kernel The files I now have are: XFCom-i810-glibc2.1.0.0-rh60.rpm XFCom-i810-glibc2.1.0.0-rh61.rpm How do I "install" is it "rpm -i" or "rpm -Uvh"??? When I go into Kpackage it says it is installed. Well they both are now and I cant uninstall one or the other as I get an error message saying it contains mulitple files. Then the other files Ive got: I810Gtt-0.1-rh60.i386.rpm I810Gtt-0.1-rh61.i386.rpm and I810Gtt-0.1-4.src.rpm I810Gtt-0.1-5.src.rpm I dont know which one of these to use. My guess was that I can install with the I810Gtt-0.1-rh* or build and compile using the I810Gtt-0.1-4 or 5*. Either one should work? They dont. when I run the I810Gtt-0.1-rh* ones sure, they show up in the kpackage as installed but no references or files seem to go anywhere. I now also have both of them (60+61 in the kpackage aswell) When I try either of the bottom files I get a horrible error script message that Ive pasted below. when I search for XFCom, its no where to be found. Antoher issue I think may be contributing is the XF86_SVGA server. It wasnt installed during installation even when I chose recommended install. I think I got it installed ok eventually, it shows in the same dir as the VGA16 now. I guess I still get confused with the links. there are 4 different link options to run and I dont know which of these I need. They are: cd/ etc/X11 ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_i810 X ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_i810 /etc/X11/X ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_i810 /usr/X11R6/bin/X which ones do I do? and where does the SVGA server get used, the only reference to that is during xf86config choosing the SVGA not SGA16. Im not sure if any of the above link settings need to refer to the SVGA as when I looked into one of the links it was refering to VGA16. Version 7 I got as it said it "supports i810. "BUT" it is not an option as you still need the kernel or something similar to that. Also in the earlier i810 setup support with md6.5 that I got working thanks to your help, it says "After you have successfully installed the vga16 server (which I have[even though Im getting only 1 horrible resolution]) you can upgrade your install with the XFCom X Server which will support high resolutions then further into the complete install of xfree it says "You can find the correctly compiled XF86_SVGA server with i810 support..." I am so confused. I sure would appreciate any help regards Gina - Original Message - From: "Thomas J. Kwasnik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Gina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 08:43: pm Subject: Re: [newbie] X configure help PLEASE My pleasure, and yes i would like to know your progress Gina wrote: Thank you so much Tom! you know what I'll be doing tonight :) I'll let you know how I go with it. regards Gina - Original Message - From: "Tom Kwasnik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Gina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 05:07: pm Subject: Re: [newbie] X configure help PLEASE On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote: Sure, in fact, i'll do one better than that, in my reply here, i'll give you the release notes that *I* found on the i810 video chipsetI also have mandrake 6.5, and have had my ups and downs in the hardware area as far as setup, so if i can be at all helpful, by all means let me know.here is the release : (please bear in mind that all this may NOT necessarily be applicable to youi doubt you'll need kernel re-configuration) This document is provided by Intel as a service for its customers only. THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY WARRANTY OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF ANY PROPOSAL, SPECIFICATION OR SAMPLE. Intel disclaims all liability, including liability for infringement of any proprietary rights, relating to use of information in this document. No license, express or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, to any intellectual property rights are granted herein. This document details how to get Linux* up and running on either an Intel® 810 or an Intel® 810E chipset-based motherboard. This document was written using RedHat* 6.0 as a reference platform; some details may not be valid on other distributions or versions. Table of Contents Requirements Features Installing a new system Kernel Setup X Server
[newbie] X configure help PLEASE
Ops, forgot to include error script: [root@localhost /tmp]# rpm --rebuild I810Gtt-0.1-4.src.rpm Installing I810Gtt-0.1-4.src.rpm Executing: %prep + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + rm -rf I810Gtt-0.1 + /bin/mkdir -p I810Gtt-0.1 + cd I810Gtt-0.1 + /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/I810Gtt.tar.gz + tar -xvvf - -rw-r--r-- root/root 4295 1999-10-12 20:56:55 Makefile -rw-r--r-- root/root 698 1999-09-01 08:56:20 README -rw-r--r-- root/root 20181 1999-10-12 21:02:01 agpgart.c -rw-r--r-- root/root 3101 1999-09-28 11:35:30 agpgart.h -rw-r--r-- root/root 2943 1999-09-29 00:59:48 testgart.c -rw-r--r-- root/root 106 1999-10-12 20:53:45 version-test.c -rwxr-xr-x root/root 50 1999-10-12 20:55:22 version-test.sh + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' ++ /usr/bin/id -u + '[' 0 = 0 ']' + /bin/chown -Rhf root . ++ /usr/bin/id -u + '[' 0 = 0 ']' + /bin/chgrp -Rhf root . + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,g-w,o-w . + exit 0 Executing: %build + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd I810Gtt-0.1 + make 'OPT_CFLAGS=-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mpentiumpro -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2' version-test.c:1: linux/version.h: No such file or directory ./version-test.sh: ./version-test: No such file or directory hx@hx@grep: /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory grep: /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory version-test.c:1: linux/version.h: No such file or directory ./version-test.sh: ./version-test: No such file or directory KERNEL_VERSION= KERNEL_VERSION_MAJOR=. Something wrong with detection of KERNEL_VERSION? Please check Makefile and report bug KERNEL_VERSION_MAJOR=. agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels exit -1 Expect kernel source at location /usr/src/linux Sym.link /usr/src/linux - where you have your sources make: *** [sanity] Error 255 Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1356 (%build)
Re: [newbie] Re: Hola acabo de visitar tu pagina
Todo lo que necesitas para aprender a crear paginas de web o para usar linux lo puedes conseguir en el web. Para crear paginas de web, lo mejor es aprender HTML. Tambien se pueden crear usando netscape o internet explorer, pero el producto no va a ser exactamente lo que esperas (al menos en my experiencia). Si sabes ingles, aqui hay algunas paginas que te pueden ayudar: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 (para Linux) http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html (para HTML) Te recomiendo que tambien uses maquinas de busqueda (como www.metacrawler.com o www.google.com) para encontrar informacion respecto a cualquier topico sobre el cual desees aprender. DvB On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, mark m wrote: Hola soy MARK, te escribo desde BOLIVIA me gusto mucho su pagina web y me gustaria si te es posible POR FAVOR me indicaras donde puedo encontrar manuales para hacer ese tipo de pagina ademas en que programa lo hiciste, te cuento que tengo que hacer una pagina algo complicada y no donde empezar, tambien te rogaria si puedes enviarme manuales sobre linux, soy principiante en linux y tengo que instalar un servidor con linux y 25 terminales con windows y no tengo ni la mas remota idea de como hacerlo , se como hacerlo en windows pero de linux no se ni papa, ya compraron la maquina para que funcione como servidor, tuve que bajar los drivers desde internet para la de video pero no puedo configuarla por eso necesito los manuales. Si puedes enviarme manuales sobre creacion de paginas web super complejas y manuales para linux y todos sus trucos te estare completamente agradecido ya que me salvaras el cuello. De ante mano te lo agradesco mucho si lo pudieses hacer Gracias MARK PD. mi correo es [EMAIL PROTECTED] mi icq es 15010878 Consigue tu cuenta de E-mail gratis y permanente en WWW.YUPI.COM
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
Craig wrote: I am very new to Linux, I'm triple booting with Win2K, Win98, Linux my Epson Stylus Photo 700 works fantastic in all three. Craig Photo printing looks good/great??? Really sounds like Epson is the only way to go! I still have on a shelf somewhere an old Epson Stylus Color 600 I think. Might be time to get a new one, though. I can always sell the HP880 to a windows user at work :-)
Re: [newbie] DiskDrake
So I can install linux along with windows without destroying my data on the FAT32 partitions? Yes, this does work. I've tried it once with 7.0 successfully. I allowed DiskDrake to resize an 8 GB partition down to 2 GB. I don't know if I'd try it without a good backup, though. MB
Re: [newbie] DiskDrake Question
Nick Davina wrote: yes, but if you use it to much, your hard-drive could be damaged. (You will have to use it for 100 times before that happends)And why do you want to BUY partitionmagic. You can download it from internet for free and it works fine. Nick Davina ICQ# 15178477 http://www.evolnick.com - Original Message - From: Jamie Richard (Gamestation) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: [newbie] DiskDrake Question I have a question about diskdrake... Is it a non-destructive partitioner or am I gonna have to buy partitionmagic?[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Image] www.webprovider.com where have you downloaded it free? I have seen a demo, that doesn't actually modify anything.
Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all
dave wrote: First, crontab -e to edit a crontab file. In it I have: 30 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /root/rad_at.gif http://weather.unisys.com/radar/rad_at.gif 31 * * * * xloadimage -onroot -fullscreen /root/rad_at.gif Your image file would probably be different for your geographic area, and the -O is dash OH, not ZERO. Correction - _I_ at least needed (just found out the hard way) the path to xloadimage: 31 * * * * /usr/X11R6/bin/xloadimage -onroot etc Turns out that the path for the crontab entries isn't the same, necessarily, as in your normal bash environment. The image didn't update as it should have this last hour - that's how I noticed. Had to be the path :-) dave w
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
dave wrote: Craig wrote: I am very new to Linux, I'm triple booting with Win2K, Win98, Linux my Epson Stylus Photo 700 works fantastic in all three. Craig Photo printing looks good/great??? Really sounds like Epson is the only way to go! I still have on a shelf somewhere an old Epson Stylus Color 600 I think. Might be time to get a new one, though. I can always sell the HP880 to a windows user at work :-) Photo Printing, well I've scanned pictures of my kids, and printed them out on photo quality to blow them up to larger size for framing. Using photo quality paper, you can't tell the difference, infact after a little photoshop tweaking of the image, the printed ones look to have truer color than the orig. Craig
Re: [newbie] X configure help PLEASE
I also got the Intel 810E motherboard with a 550E cpu, ASUS CUW-RM I can install the VGA drive. I just download the driver and follow the document in Intel web page. http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm However this drive does not include the Audio driver for 810E AC97 audio!!! Anyone know how to config it? Terence Gina wrote: Hi Tom, Its me again with the same problem but now in Air. Ive tried installing the same files I got it working with in MAndrake 6.5 and it doesnt work in 7. After hunting around I found some info with later files to try out. I cant get them working. I am confused with what files Ive got and what ones should be used and even then, the commands to use to install the XFCom. what stages need to be done? like: install the XFCom file build the kernel then install the kernel The files I now have are: XFCom-i810-glibc2.1.0.0-rh60.rpm XFCom-i810-glibc2.1.0.0-rh61.rpm How do I "install" is it "rpm -i" or "rpm -Uvh"??? When I go into Kpackage it says it is installed. Well they both are now and I cant uninstall one or the other as I get an error message saying it contains mulitple files. Then the other files Ive got: I810Gtt-0.1-rh60.i386.rpm I810Gtt-0.1-rh61.i386.rpm and I810Gtt-0.1-4.src.rpm I810Gtt-0.1-5.src.rpm I dont know which one of these to use. My guess was that I can install with the I810Gtt-0.1-rh* or build and compile using the I810Gtt-0.1-4 or 5*. Either one should work? They dont. when I run the I810Gtt-0.1-rh* ones sure, they show up in the kpackage as installed but no references or files seem to go anywhere. I now also have both of them (60+61 in the kpackage aswell) When I try either of the bottom files I get a horrible error script message that Ive pasted below. when I search for XFCom, its no where to be found. Antoher issue I think may be contributing is the XF86_SVGA server. It wasnt installed during installation even when I chose recommended install. I think I got it installed ok eventually, it shows in the same dir as the VGA16 now. I guess I still get confused with the links. there are 4 different link options to run and I dont know which of these I need. They are: cd/ etc/X11 ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_i810 X ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_i810 /etc/X11/X ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_i810 /usr/X11R6/bin/X which ones do I do? and where does the SVGA server get used, the only reference to that is during xf86config choosing the SVGA not SGA16. Im not sure if any of the above link settings need to refer to the SVGA as when I looked into one of the links it was refering to VGA16. Version 7 I got as it said it "supports i810. "BUT" it is not an option as you still need the kernel or something similar to that. Also in the earlier i810 setup support with md6.5 that I got working thanks to your help, it says "After you have successfully installed the vga16 server (which I have[even though Im getting only 1 horrible resolution]) you can upgrade your install with the XFCom X Server which will support high resolutions then further into the complete install of xfree it says "You can find the correctly compiled XF86_SVGA server with i810 support..." I am so confused. I sure would appreciate any help regards Gina - Original Message - From: "Thomas J. Kwasnik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Gina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 08:43: pm Subject: Re: [newbie] X configure help PLEASE My pleasure, and yes i would like to know your progress Gina wrote: Thank you so much Tom! you know what I'll be doing tonight :) I'll let you know how I go with it. regards Gina - Original Message - From: "Tom Kwasnik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Gina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 05:07: pm Subject: Re: [newbie] X configure help PLEASE On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote: Sure, in fact, i'll do one better than that, in my reply here, i'll give you the release notes that *I* found on the i810 video chipsetI also have mandrake 6.5, and have had my ups and downs in the hardware area as far as setup, so if i can be at all helpful, by all means let me know.here is the release : (please bear in mind that all this may NOT necessarily be applicable to youi doubt you'll need kernel re-configuration) This document is provided by Intel as a service for its customers only. THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ANY WARRANTY OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF ANY PROPOSAL, SPECIFICATION OR SAMPLE. Intel disclaims all liability, including liability for infringement of any proprietary rights, relating to use of information in this document. No license, express or implied, by
Re: [newbie] and another thing - best printer?
Craig wrote: Photo Printing, well I've scanned pictures of my kids, and printed them out on photo quality to blow them up to larger size for framing. Using photo quality paper, you can't tell the difference, infact after a little photoshop tweaking of the image, the printed ones look to have truer color than the orig. Thank you, Craig. That's what I wanted to hear. Epson 700, here I come. I've been leaning away from HP lately, cuz of win-printer hassles, and figured Epson was gonna be the way to go. Glad to hear that was a good (lucky) guess. I've also been leaning away from 3com for NICs. I've used 'em for ages, but I've become a Linksys man. They work without hassles in linux AND 'doze. And while I'm at it, I've switched from 3com/USR (after being a Dual-Standard snob from my BBS days) to Zoom, of all brands. For the same reasons. Works great, costs less, less filling. dave w
Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all
At 11:02 PM 2/6/00 -0500, you wrote: (just found out the hard way) the path to xloadimage: 31 * * * * /usr/X11R6/bin/xloadimage -onroot etc $ which xloadimage /usr/X11R6/bin/xloadimage $ Interesting what you find when you poke randomly in man pages and other docs. Or read a random shell script from the system and man everything unfamiliar you see in the file that looks like it might be a command or a standard file name. The "which" thing, to find out what exact directory a command on your path is in, is a nice example of a very useful and simple utility totally lacking in MS-DOS. Especially useful when debugging problems that can be caused by having conflicting versions of stuff on the path, i.e. app a needs a newer version of utility b, and an older version of utility b is also on the path -- which will indicate this problem exists and probably even show that the old one is earlier on the path, not to mention indicate where it is lurking so you can rm it or at least mv it off the path. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [[newbie] KDE runs to slow!]
Just out of curiosity, how does somebody load some of the different X windows managers.. In my Windows switcher is KDE, GNOME and AnotherLevel... I don't see any way of configuring some of these other windows managers I've read about.. thanx *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 02/06/2000 at 8:38 PM Michael Scottaline wrote: I think your system might be a little light to be running X, especially with something like KDE. Add another 32 meg fr Ram, increase swap to about 100 meg, and you'll notice a significant increase in performance. Or you might drop KDE and try running a lighter desktop environment like Afterstep Joseph E. Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd http://www.wizaerd.com Flash, Cold Fusion, Canvas, and 3D... Wizaerd's Realm has a little bit of everything... CF Developer for iTOOL.COM http://www.iTOOL.COM
[newbie] changing boot method
I have linux installed with lilo in the mbr, and now have added bootmagic, how do I get linux to boot properly? I added the root partition to bootmagic, but it doesn't boot. I can boot linux using a floppy.
[newbie] Strange Mouse Behaviour
I have two systems (one Win95 and the other Mandrake 7.0) hooked into a BELKIN OmniCube for swapping back and forth between the two machines. Everything is fine unless I swap while my KDE is active (it does it in GNOME as well)... if I swap while not running KDE, everything is just fine, but if I have KDE running, and I switch to the other machine and then back, my mouse becomes wildly erratic... The mouse will not respond to any of the clicks, and the mouse pointer just jumps all over the place... has anyone got any clues on how I can avoid this behaviour while swapping between the two systems? thanx Joseph E. Sheble a.k.a. Wizaerd http://www.wizaerd.com Flash, Cold Fusion, Canvas, and 3D... Wizaerd's Realm has a little bit of everything... CF Developer for iTOOL.COM http://www.iTOOL.COM
Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all
Paul Derbyshire wrote: Interesting what you find when you poke randomly in man pages and other docs. Or read a random shell script from the system and man everything unfamiliar you see in the file that looks like it might be a command or a standard file name. The "which" thing, to find out what exact directory a command on your path is in, is a nice example of a very useful and simple utility totally lacking in MS-DOS snip Ain't that the truth? g I didn't even know about 'which.' I used " whereis xloadimage " to find WHERE it was. 'Which' is neat. Will have to add that to my list of tricks. I'm an electronic technician (really a systems specialist) by trade - and I find that the important thing to do in cases like this is WRITE IT DOWN. I may not use 'which' again for months ... and I'll forget it. I might only do a re-phasing of the feedlines on an antenna system every few years. I _will_ forget what I did last time! That's the hardest part of linux or teching in general: forcing one's self either to remember (next to impossible for me anymore) or to write it down (type it out, whatever). There's probably a console utility for that if I just knew the command. " remember 'which' need (l)ater -store /dont-forget" dave w
Re: [newbie] XKill
cory wrote: I was using Kmp3. I tried to load a playlist and it froze up. I clicked on XKill on the desktop to get rid of it and now it won't start up anymore. I've tried rebooting and nothing seems to work and I can't find any info on the program XKill. Try un/re installing Kmp3 with kpackage. "man XKill" will give you info. -WBD
Re: [newbie] background images - SUCCESS and thank y'all
At 11:42 PM 2/6/00 -0500, you wrote: I didn't even know about 'which.' I used " whereis xloadimage " to find WHERE it was. 'Which' is neat. Will have to add that to my list of tricks. whereis?? I didn't know about that :-) There's probably a console utility for that if I just knew the command. " remember 'which' need (l)ater -store /dont-forget" Nah. You can probably make emacs do this. You can probably make a shell script to do this. You can always use a knote or make an associative data web of personal notes in HTML. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
I had a Cyrix PR120 (100Mhz) with 24Mb RAM and 80 Mb swap running Mandrake 5.3 and KDE. Altough it wasn't lightning fast, it delivered decent performance and I was happy with it. Of course that when there were some 5 Netscape windows open, the machine started to run slower due to swaping ( both KDE and Netscape are memory hogs). Maybe if you expand your swap partition or, better yet, add some more RAM, you'll get more speed. You can also try using another Windows Manager like XFCE. But even with 16Mb of RAM, I think you should not experience that sluggish performance you describe. Check if there are other CPU intensive tasks running while you work (press CTRL F2 and type kpm, and see which program is the most CPU hungry). El dom, 06 feb 2000, escribiste: On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Cristi Andronic wrote: I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my HD is kranking all the time). I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
Re: [newbie] Hard Drive does not power down
In a console type 'man hdparm' and you'll learn how to spin-down your hard drive. El dom, 06 feb 2000, escribiste: Under Windoze, after 20 minutes of idle time, my hard drive would obediently spin-down into a power-saving state. This does not seem to be the case with linux (I have another computer (Redhat) with the same problem.) My Mandrake computer is an Acer Extensa 390c notebook, perchased in New Zealand. (Cheap piece of crap) There are no settings for how long to wait for in the BIOS, so I'm presuming it's an OS thing. Could someone please point me in the right direction. I've tried grepping for apm in all of my HOWTOs, but to no avail. I would like to leave it going all the time, but without this hardware-saving feature, I'm reluctant to do so. Thanks in advance. Cameron Kerr - Computer Technician Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph:474 3367 or 474 3800 if unavailable Cell: 021 2938869 -- Guillermo Belli - Linux User #131340 ICQ #38321312 http://sites.netscape.net/memo81 (under construction)
Re: [newbie] Kernel intsallation?
Joe Sircy wrote: Can anyone help me through installing a new kernel in mandrake 6.5? Joe There is a good compiling howto at www.mandrakeuser.org If you got a Mandrake RPM, just click it (as root) click install, then edit lilo with klilo. Change "kernel to boot" to your new one eg: vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk to vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk -WBD
Re: [newbie] 7.0
Paul Derbyshire wrote: Suppose I got a 7.0 disk from some unspecified source. Would I be able to quickly and painlessly upgrade the 6.0 I have, without screwing anything up or losing my data? It *might* work, didn't for me with 6.1--7.0, others have had probs. -WBD
RE: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
Hi Paul! I have a similar setup on one of my machines and did the following test last night: Yanked out 2 simms so I had only 32mb. Extremely bad performance, heaps of disk thrashing, opening Netscape took yonks and it ran like a dog :-( Put back the simms so I had 64mb. Much MUCH better performance. Still a little slow but considering I have one of those crappy cyrix P166+ chips which really run at 133mhz I guess it was to be expected. The conclusion, as our learned friends are saying, KDE needs heaps of memory and if you want real performance, a decent processor as well. Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: Paul Derbyshire [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 07 February 2000 0:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow! At 01:38 PM 2/6/00 -0800, you wrote: I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my HD is kranking all the time). That's damned odd. I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. Oh, that explains everything. P133/16MB RAM ^ ^ | | | `-- You intend to run a GUI with this?! Stick to the command prompt until | you've got at least 32. :-) `-- Ouch. That places your machine squarely in the "desktop calculator" bracket in the CPU pecking order. Try something with a bit more zip to it. 350MHz is probably a good starting place. Take your spending cash for the month, but 48 megs of simms with it, and blow the rest on the fastest AMD chip you can. (AMD, because you'll get a slightly faster AMD chip than you will an Intel chip for the same price, and whereas you can get a conceptually-even-faster Cyrix chip, Cyrix generally sucks the bag, especially on fpu performance, but also on string and integer ops.) -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line." - -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] I'm new, help :)
Hi I'm entirely new to the Linux world, and I was interested in trying out Mandrake's Linux. First of all, I would like to know if it will run on such a system with 233 mhz AMD-K6 and 32 MB ram. (It's my old computer ^_^) Secondly, how do you install it? I put in the disc and restarted, and then I came to a menu asking for a partition. I have no idea how to work this, so help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anth __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Retrieving Lost Root Password
At 01:55 05 02 2000 +, you wrote: I changed my root password and I must have typed it into the system incorrectly because Linux no longer accepts it. So, what can I do to retrieve the password for root? just use your rescue disk, and mount your volume after that, you can edit your /etc/shadow and empty the password section - Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/freevideo/
RE: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
At 07:51 AM 2/7/00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Paul! I have a similar setup on one of my machines and did the following test last night: Yanked out 2 simms so I had only 32mb. Extremely bad performance, heaps of disk thrashing, opening Netscape took yonks and it ran like a dog :-( Put back the simms so I had 64mb. That's because typical usage of KDE means machine running X server is using about 50 megs. If you have less it'll thrash on disk. If you have more, peachy keen. Whereas with Windows, typical usage uses from 100-150megs, and unless you have 192 or 256M you'll thrash regularly! Which do you prefer ;-) KDE isn't bloated. It is honestly not really possible to run a real, modern graphical environment at high resolutions with less than about 50M. It's Windows that's bloated. The various lean mean WMs are WMs, but not full blown desktop environments, so of course they are smaller. -- .*. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not -()circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a `*' straight line."- -- B. Mandelbrot |http://surf.to/pgd.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ | Paul Derbyshire Programmer Humanist|ICQ: 10423848|
[newbie] RE: MDK 7.0 dial on demand ppp
Hello, Just wondering if anyone knows if they have included a setup utility for configuring dial on demand ppp in the new distribution or do you have to use a daemon such as diald. Thanks, Wade
Re: [newbie] Kernel intsallation?
On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, you wrote: Joe Sircy wrote: Can anyone help me through installing a new kernel in mandrake 6.5? Joe There is a good compiling howto at www.mandrakeuser.org If you got a Mandrake RPM, just click it (as root) click install, then edit lilo with klilo. Change "kernel to boot" to your new one eg: vmlinuz-2.2.13-7mdk to vmlinuz-2.2.13-22mdk -WBD Thanks Warren for your help, I am now writing you on vmliuz-2.2.13-22mdksmp that was easier than I thought! Joe
Re: [newbie] Too much lsd?
From: Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] In your .bash_profile file, or whatever shell you use, add the following: alias ls='ls -Fa' then whenever you type ls, it will actually do an ls -Fa. Dan Yes, that is a good idea, but what do I do when I want to do a mere ls? I would like to keep that possibilty as well. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Setting the time in Mandrake?
Linux-Mandrake claims that the time is one hour more than the time in the bios (which is the correct time). Setting the correct time with the "date" command is unsatisfactory, since the erroneous time is displayed again after the next reboot. Of course I could keep on changing the time in the bios depending on which operating system I use, but it seems unlikely that this is the only way. How do I set the correct time permanently? I assume that there must be a way to do so? Thank You. /Ian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
